Get it working before worrying about the rest. First make sure that the hook is
firing by adding a print statement to the lambda, something like
(gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
(lambda ()
(format #t "Retrieving Quotes~%")
(gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
You'll need to run GnuCash from a terminal session with `flatpak run
org.gnucash.GnuCash` to see the output. You might want to add --logto=stderr to
that so that you'll see the results of the perl and FQ checks to make sure that
that's not the problem.
Regards,
John Ralls
> On Dec 5, 2022, at 2:31 AM, rsbrux <rsb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> A little further study suggests that I should have placed config-user.scm in
> GNC_CONFIG_HOME (in my case
> $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/config/gnucash/) instead of GNC_DATA_HOME
> (see
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#In_GNC_CONFIG_HOME).
>
> However, moving it there still did not have the desired effect (i.e. no new
> prices appeared in GC's Price DB, even after leaving GC open for a quarter
> hour). It occurred to me that this could be caused by inadequate privileges,
> but changing the privileges of config-user.scm to 775 (and restarting GC)
> still did not result in any new price quotes.
>
> As previously mentioned I would like this behaviour to be user-independent.
> It appears that I should be able to achieve this by redirecting
> GNC_CONFIG_HOME to a common direct by means of environment variable.
> However, the pages https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations and
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Environment_Variables disagree on the names of
> the environment variables.
>
> On 28.11.22 08:53, rsbrux wrote:
>> Of course.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
>>
>>> On 27 Nov 2022, at 22:41, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us> wrote:
>>>
>>> Did you restart GnuCash?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> John Ralls
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Nov 27, 2022, at 11:07 AM, rsbrux <rsb...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> P.S. I created the file
>>>> $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash/config-user.scm
>>>>
>>>> with the contents:
>>>>
>>>> (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>>>> (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
>>>>
>>>> under my own Ubuntu login, but the price database does not show any new
>>>> prices when I open GC and let it sit for half an hour.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help.
>>>>
>>>>> On 27.11.22 18:35, rsbrux wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, that sounds very promising! My only problem is that I have a
>>>>> Flatpak installation under Ubuntu.
>>>>>
>>>>> According to
>>>>> https://code.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#GNC_DATA_HOME,
>>>>> GNC_DATA_HOME is under $HOME.
>>>>>
>>>>> However, I have installed GC for all users on the system and want the
>>>>> startup task to run regardless of who is running GC.
>>>>>
>>>>> If I put config-user.scm in
>>>>> $HOME/.var/app/org.gnucash.GnuCash/data/gnucash, won't it be
>>>>> user-specific?
>>>>>
>>>>> On 25.11.22 21:07, john wrote:
>>>>>>> On Nov 25, 2022, at 12:56 AM, rsbrux via gnucash-user
>>>>>>> <gnucash-user@gnucash.org>
>>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I used to have a chron job set up to automatically fetch security
>>>>>>> prices on first login each day, but found this inconvenient because it
>>>>>>> locks the data file, and opening GnuCash is often the first thing I do
>>>>>>> upon logging in.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I have noticed that when I have GC open interactively, I can start an
>>>>>>> update in the price database window and let it run in the background
>>>>>>> while I continue to work in the registers.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Would there be some way to get GC to perform the Price Database
>>>>>>> automatically when GC is started (interactively), instead of performing
>>>>>>> the automatic price update in a separate session?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> Yes, but only through 4.x because the quotes system won't be accessible
>>>>>> from Scheme in GnuCash 5, it having been rewritten in C++.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Create if necessary $GNC_DATA_HOME/config-user.scm and edit it to add
>>>>>> (gnc-hook-add-scm-dangler HOOK-UI-POST-STARTUP
>>>>>> (lambda () (gnc:book-add-quotes #f (gnc-get-current-book)))
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Regards,
>>>>>> John Ralls
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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